This IDC study examines the mobile middleware market for the 2005?2010 period, with vendor revenue trends and market growth forecasts. Worldwide market sizing is provided for 2005. A five-year growth forecast for this market is shown for 2006?2010. A vendor competitive analysis, with vendor revenue and market shares of the leading vendors, is provided for 2005. This study also includes profiles of leading vendors and identifies the characteristics that vendors will need to be successful in the future.

"In 2005, the market was marked by major acquisitions and consolidation; in 2006, companies continued to expand their market and channel presence and another major mobile player entered the fold ? Motorola announced its intention to acquire Good Technology. Today, the top 8 mobile middleware players are all huge entities and largely all billion-dollar and multibillion-dollar companies: RIM, Sybase (iAnywhere), IBM, Nokia (Intellisync), Motorola (Good), Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP. With such large entities come new growth opportunities and increased pressure on small standalone players." ? Stephen D. Drake, program director, Mobile Enterprise